Jeannie Wright has practised as a counsellor since the 1970's and has taught and developed practice-based research on counselling in seven different universities. Her major research interests are writing for therapeutic purposes, online counselling and collaborative projects on gender, social justice and diversity. She has a particular interest in narrative and arts-based research approaches. After working in the educational and voluntary sectors in the UK, she spent two years practising and teaching at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, where she also worked with local NGOs on projects around women's health and domestic violence. At the University of Sheffield in the 1990's she pioneered the first online counselling service for staff, taught at the University of Nottingham and volunteered in a range of organisations offering free and low cost counselling. She returned to the University of Warwick in 2011 from Aotearoa New Zealand where she was Assoc Prof at Massey University, a trustee at a Women's Refuge and volunteered as a counsellor in a local third sector agency. Jeannie is a member of the editorial board of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (monthly journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and regularly reviews books and articles submitted for publication for a number of international journals and publishers.
